NASA's Moon Mission - Mythbusters - S05 EP02 - Science Documentary 

I’m watching this in 2023 and I forgot how good this show was. Look what we have now shows about digging holes and ufos.

Regarding the footprint: As someone who has been into Tracking for many years I can say: given a substrate of the right grain size / structure you can get very very clear footprints without any moisture present. Just try leaving a footprint in dry campfire ash or cement. Those will be very sharp and visible.

I think these days what we need is reboot of Mythbusters called Conspiracybusters.

Still hard to believe grant is dead. R.I.P. buddy. ❤

It's crazy how back then you could just talk about stuff like this on TV without being canceled and having "Context" crap forced all over your uploads.

I think NASA should send a rover with high resolution cameras to the Apollo landing sites and take some footages and shut the moon landing conspiracy debate once and for all.

This Episode blew me away 10 years ago, I didn't know people thought we faked the moon landing at the time. Either I was really naive, or it wasn't as well known, or probably a bit of both. Lol

Pete: right, we’ve got the moon set? Doug: yeah! Pete: astronauts ready to go? Doug: yeah! Pete: they’re about to put the flag in the ground? Doug: yeah! Pete: cool. Doug turn on the big fan in the studio. We need to get that flag blowing! Doug: what?!!!

My left ear loves this show.

Jamie had an especially good mood in this episode and i have to say, its one of their best episodes.

seeing feather and hammer fall at the same time is just amazing

I was on the moon at that time, drinking a beer, and waiting for these guys. They eventually arrived, and we had a drink.

Yess, that’s the episode I’ve been waiting for so long to watch

i miss this show... so glad I can watch it now

The flag one always gets me. Supposedly NASA went to enormous effort to fake the landings - yet at the same time was quite happy to show something that would instantly prove them to be fake - ie the flag being blown around by the wind.

Great show - good job!

The mission commander stripes were only used from Apollo 13.

My favourite apollo story is the "argument" between Harold Schmidt and Gene Cernan who both claim to be the last person on the moon. Harold Schmidt, the only civilian to walk on the moon was the last person to climb down from the LEM of Apollo 17 - making him the twelfth and therefore last person to step foot on the moon. When it came to leaving the moon however Schmidt was the first person to climb back into the LEM - leaving Cernan momentarily behind as the last person to stand on the lunar surface 😊

When I was a young kid, there was a woman living over the road called Stella. Her daughter, Lisa married a man called Neil Armstrong. But he wasn't the real Neil Armstrong. He was just a man with the same name. He hasn't actually been to the moon. They named their first son Louis.

Second time watching this, I have to refresh my conspiracy busting skills because you never know when an actual "LUNATIC" will pounce!

If anyone is wondering why NASA doesn't just send a probe to the Moon and photograph the landing sites (all six of them) in order to prove they did, infact, land there, check out the vid I uploaded. It features the images NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission returned back in 2011 when instructed to descend to within 25km of the lunar surface.

Another test should have been testing the Hasselblad film cameras in a vacuum with extreme temperatures. I dont think any photos would be clear.

If N> Armstrong was the first guy on the moon.........WHO took the photo of him coming down the ladder ? OR.... how was that done ??

7:51 They don't explain it clearly. The key idea at play here is the principle of perspective. Those shadows diverge due to the effect of perspective that squeezes them as they recede into the distance.

This is going to be epic! Not a big possibility but these guys should get back together, minus Grant, RIP, at least on a regular but much reduced schedule, might work. The scale of lighting probably doesn't match sun. Of course if light comes from a single source shadows at two different sides of a photo won't be parallel. In all honesty though, do you think that NASA and Stanley Kubrick, trying to fake the moon landing, would make the amateur mistake of using multiple light sources.

Communication of the Lunar Landing came through Australian earth stations.

Fantastic video

Great job.

How to win an argument. First start off by saying lots of silly things your opponent never said. Then when pulled change the subject over and over. Lol

Should have used Talac Powder for the first Boot Print test. Armstrong's Suit didn't have the Red Stripe on the Helmet Cover, Apollo 14 was the first Mission to do so The pic of Aldrin at the Foot of the Ladder, was taken as He came down, he had no dust on his legs, so why did they put dust on the Models The idea of simulating the Lunar Gravity in a Vomit Comet, was great. They also increased the Walkers Mass to what it would be fully Suited. Good Job

'In a 2005 interview, Collin Powell ( US Secretary of State) stated that he did not lie (Iraqi WMD) because he did not know the information was false... ' Google

The "breeze" theory is said to be flag movement as the astronaut passed close by. If that be the case, it fails to explore the spacesuit itself, with it's own venting, static build up, etc.

It actually took them 5 seasons to do this episode???

couldn't you just speed up the frame rates of the original footage and see if the movement looks natural then?

You win, the conspiracy theory becomes a conspiracy myth.

First off all, i love you guys. Second.. im the only one who bearley can hear the narrator? Im watching this on my phone, and for what reason i hear him only on my left speaker.

Spacecraft from China, India and Japan have also spotted these landing sites, providing further independent verification of the landings.

Re the light in the Aldrin shot, there's also the light reflected by Armstrong's suit, re-reflected by Aldrin's suit back to the camera. Those suits reflect over 90%of the sunlight hitting them.

Great show guys 🎉

I hated seeing Mythbusters end I loved the show felt like the end of an era.

There were four sources of light sun, earth, moon and the sun shield on lunar modul.

Loved mythbusters

That can't be Neil Armstrong suit. On Apollo 11 they did NOT have the red stripe on the commander suit. They started putting them on because it was difficult to identify who was on camera.

The moon dust at 1/6th Earth pressure, moves in an entirely different way to on Earth. Hence, even if footage was slowed down, you'd still be unable to replicate that fact. Plus all the hard shadows in every piece of film stay where they should, even whilst traversing by foot or Lunar Rover. There is good footage of the Lunar Rover travelling in 360 degress over a mile with far distant hills, all with the same one light source; no light fall off anywhere in any of the thousands of pics/films. We have footage from over 50,000ft up to landing on the moon with no edit cuts in the analogue film. You'd need one hell of an outside studio to film from that height, with a view of hundred of miles! Every divet, crater and dip, all perfect in the footage/pics, that would later be shot over 40 years later, using hi-res probes from China, India, Japan and the USA. No night-time flying bugs to spoil any shot! Not one word from foreign intelligence aiming to show-up the USA's (with many British staff) achievements....plus actually building Apollo rockets from nearly 3 million working parts, all designed to do what they were created for - going to the moon. We know how far the moon is from us, thanks to 3 seperate laser reflectors left there and we have seismic readings from their scientific equipment that was set up....oh and all 6 landing sights have also been photographed by numerous other countries over the last few years - all as they were, every foot print, lunar track and LM bases. Using 1968/9 to 1972 technology, it would be impossible to fake going there 9 times and landing 6 times - in fact, Hollywood tried to recreate it in a couple of recent movies, using modern tech/CGI and couldn't get it right. Go to 'March to The Moon' website to view thousands of their photographs in massive RAW files. If you were trying to fake something, there'd be a handful of pictures and a few short bits of grainy footage. Or, go to 'Apollo 11 in Real Time' website, to watch the complete journey from lift off to return. Every bit of dialogue, with films/pictures in 'real time' during the mission. (There's also Apollo 13 and the last 17 available)

Great show

12:20 Welp the Red commander stripes were inmplemented on Apollo 13 and onward Neil wouldn't have had those

Awesome job guys! 👍

I was hoping someone would comment that man has been to the moon and found out it's hollow and aliens are based there :P

Watched this back in 2012.

We should try to estimate the weight of the fuel + oxidiser together required for the to & pro journey from the Moon and the cylindrical dimensions of the Apollo 11 space craft!

very impressed with how thoroughly you tested this and i learned quite a few things I didn't know by watching it.

I did remember all the photo remake, but I forgot about the laser experiment. I didn't remember at all when I watched The big bang theory when they redo the experiment (not for real). I can't believe they stole a page for the Mythbuster playbook for that episode.

35:01 The flagpole is bent severely, causing the horizontal bar of the flag to fluctuate wildly up and down. Perhaps that is why the flag is shown almost in profile so that the viewer does not see the difference. The experiment is unclean. How about taking the exact same angle as the original video?

Fun stuff!

"The shaft is a little tight in the hole" 😂

6:00 It's perspective. They have a spotlight which is NOT parallel light. They have a point source of light, and the shadows appeared parallel. But this is like god rays.... Flat earthers claim the sun is super close because the god rays look like they diverge. God rays are parallel, but because of perspective, i.e. the clouds being close, they look like diverge onto the ground. Same thing happens with train tracks. Train tracks are parallel, yet they appear to converge.

For the first test you must use the light of the sun. With a lamp so close, the shadow does indeed go both ways. Yes, right?

inside a space suit the low pressure make u a baloon, thats was proved by Gagarin experience

39:50 This is maybe the coolest thing I’ve seen this year. Reproducing the Moon’s walk (RIP M.J.) and jumps in perfect conditions was absolutely incredible. I cannot imagine the memories Adam got now for the rest of his life……….. He was walking on the moon like Buzz……..!!!! That’s too cool….

With boot print test? You also have to consider the lesser gravity on the moon. This would cause the boot print to stay in shape, where as on earth gravity may pull the boot print out of shape Slightly ?

This only confirms my dream to experience zero g

génial !! merci

What is going on with the sound?

Well done.

What are those two tubes coming out of the suit meant for? What about the two most essential life tubes not shown? That for almost a week long journey?

the audio is not like we are used to. The show is on the right ear and the voice over is on the left ear.

How on earth did you get the copyrights to this!?? 🤯

the only thing adam got wrong is that they didn’t add the red stripes to commander suits until apollo 13 (and the first time they were seen on the moon was on apollo 14)

An object in motion stays in motion unless an external force is applied (in a vacuum that is what happens) the flag just moves whichever direction the momentum is in….no wind to stop it

They should have got in vacuum chamber in the suit, that would be really something😂

That was why Buzz Aldrin punched one man in the face when he followed him yelling that they Astronauts were liers. It is painful to risk your life to do something that others downplay or say that you faked it.

You could take them there, they still wouldn't believe. Some people seem to be de-evolving.

When the module takes off, it is filmed, back in them days I don't think they had CCD so who went back for the video ? The CCD was still in development... CCD = charged-coupled device

The images from 1969 showed the astronauts quite fit from such a journey after 8 days, 14 hours, 12 minutes and 30 seconds. Test yourself in weightlessness during that time, drop into the sea in a unit attached to parachutes. Open the door and step into a rubber boat as fit as the astronauts.😉

Did you guys account the curvature of the moon in the mock up?

Another thing is that the main rival the soviet union did not object to the landings claim by USA.

Please make some more shows like this in 2024

One Small Step For Man. One GIANT LIE For Mankind 😮

Watch the press conference of the astroNots when they "returned". Do they look like excited men that just made history? They look and sound depressed beyond belief and you can see the guilt all over their faces.

What was the gold tinsel Xmas wrap on the shuttle for?? 🤔🤔😂😂

Thanks for your presentation! Great.

Nope.... How did they get through the Van Ellen belt.. They've never been.

Why not point a powerful enough telescope to the moon and see if the stuff left behind is still there?

Center weighted spot meter?

I think most people would classify that as a plane crash. The landing gear broke, wing and engine partially removed from the plane from impact. Sounds like a crash to me. My take is loss of power, caused a hard landing which severely damaged the plane.

We proved the moon landing didn’t occur in a studio by proving it in a studio 😂😂😂

Never let the truth get in the way of a good 'ole American conspiricy theory!

14.54 shows the astronaut in total darkness 😮

When they flay back to the moon? Need my telescop pre order😊

You wouldn't use 20 odd different men,go half a dozen times,and film thousands of hours of footage if it was a hoax

Jamie said it best about conspiracy theories: Conspiracy theorists never ever bother to test their conclusions. That is the biggest difference between science and ignorance.

as a sand blaster, I can tell you that when using garnet for blasting, after 4 recycles it becomes so fine in dust that you simply cannot make a boot print.

If you investigating someone, you dont play by their rules with their equpment in their facility. Helps credibility a LOT

Thanks for posting this episode. Would appreciate it if you would add the original air date of the episode in your description.

NASA SP 287 " of course , the way we got this job done was with meeting , big meetings , little meeting hundreds of meetings ! the thing we always tried to do in these meetings was to encourage every one , no matter how shy , to speak out ! " (( apollo 11 press conference ))

Maybe Russia or China send a team to the moon to investigate it

I wouldn't want to be in the capsule when they empty it and then have to get out if there are air bottles in it

Yes!

good!!!!

I think this entire episode is made in a studio